Exclusive Locks and Indexes

Posted in 1997

Paul N. Daly — 11 Nov 1997 23:01:49 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I have encountered a problem with Online v7, where if you try to drop an index, even with exclusive lock set on the table, if the table is being looked at, the engine crashes. Does anybody know of a way round this problem, apart from waiting until no one else is in the system?